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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauty of Saturday's three-cornered competition is that the slightest flick of an elbow may upset the plans of any of the coaches. Cornell always comes to town as an unknown quantity; Dartmouth possesses potential power, but can't quite duplicate its Hanover performances on a foreign surface. It is easier to keep track of the form of Harvard's athletes than it is to follow the ups and downs of the boys who strive so diligently under Harry Hillman and Jack Moakley, and that's why the meet promises to have a stronger Crimson tinge than the "dope...

Author: By George C. Carens, | Title: GREEN VIES WITH CRIMSON FOR LEAD IN NEW FORECAST | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

Cornell is outstandingly weak in all three of these middle distance runs and may be considered as virtually out of them. Treman is the best Ithican entered in the two shorter runs, but his full possibilities are unknown. It it likely, however, that he may upset the dope and place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Has Chance For Triangular Meet Victory | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

...colleges. More than $320,000,000,000 was deposited in U. S. banks. Since 1880 U. S. population has doubled. U. S. wage earners have trebled, U. S. wealth has increased sevenfold. At least one-third of the present output of U. S. factories consists of products that were unknown 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Figures | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...lens and shutter when he reports, and his type constitutes the majority of candidates, is more deep-seated than a mere liking for the art of photography itself. Through his contacts and appointments with outsiders, he becomes aware of phases of the life of the University that were unknown before. He meets visitors of world-prominence; and seeks with equal eagerness the photographs of European exchange professors and of ponderous teeth newly-discovered in the Dental School. Though each individual experience in his CRIMSON career may be of slight importance, nevertheless, there results a background of knowledge which is immensely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHIC CANDIDATES EXPERIENCE TRAINING AND THRILLS | 2/8/1929 | See Source »

...unknown assailant who struck Dr. George Kovacs, chiropodist, of 125, Tremont Street over the head and dashed from his office at 5 o'clock last Friday, left behind him an overcoat which contained the plans for the new Harvard Gymnasium, it was learned last night at Police Headquarters. He had stolen the plans, which were in the form of blue-prints, from a contractor on the Wellesley-Boston train last Wednesday morning, and was in the Doctor's office having his foot treated when the assault was committed. A warrant has been sworn out for the criminal, but the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Shrouds Discovery of Gymnasium Blue Prints Left With Victim of Assault--Plans Stolen From Contractor | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

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